JwJ Continues Commitment to Justice for Workers

Joerg and Rosemarie Rieger gave a wonderful report from their
recent 3-month stay in South Africa. They have a lot of excellent photos that
back up their excellent analysis of the economic and political situation there.
We met on the 2nd Wednesday at 7 PM at at Oak Cliff Methodist, 547 E Jefferson
in Dallas.

Gene Lantz reported on the national Jobs with Justice conference,
which included the new trend toward organizing low-wage workers of all kinds
in "workers centers," rather than in traditional unions. Dallas needs
such a center, or half a dozen of them. Study up at http://www.aflcio.org/mediacenter/speakout/janice_fine.cfm.
Try to figure out how we could finance such a thing here!

Ironworkers Local 807, a local created specifically for organizing,
has joined our chapter and wants to talk about strengthening all our efforts.
The group committed to developing a series of delegations to Dallas-area construction
companies to talk about mistreatment of workers at Great Western Erectors. The
first delegation will be in downtown Dallas on Tuesday, May 20.

As always, we continue to assist unions and other progressive
organizations, such as the living wage campaign at Dallas City Hall and the
protests around the

Get peace buttons and other paraphernalia, as well as a really
good peace and labor history (free) from peace
buttons.